The Supremes Rule: Why You Have to Love Lawyers and Politicians

What this ruling really gives Obama the opportunity to do is rediscover the benefits of politics, democracy and leading the American people.

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Supremes Can Overturn Obamacare with “All Deliberate Speed”

If conservatives on the Supreme Court overturn the ACA, they should do it with the “all deliberate speed” they applied to segregation (another federal vs. states rights conflict). That should let health reform continue until at least the mid-century

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Supremes Can Overturn Obamacare with “All Deliberate Speed”

If conservatives on the Supreme Court overturn the ACA, they should do it with the “all deliberate speed” they applied to segregation (another federal vs. states rights conflict). That should let health reform continue until at least the mid-century

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Can hospital execs walk the tightrope over the cost-quality chasm?

Hospital execs are walking a tightrope over a cost-quality chasm to bring their organizations safely from a world of pay-for-volume to pay-for-value health care.

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Can hospital execs walk the tightrope over the cost-quality chasm?

Hospital execs are walking a tightrope over a cost-quality chasm to bring their organizations safely from a world of pay-for-volume to pay-for-value health care.

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Burying a Life in My Mother’s Obit

When my mother died back in 1993, the best way to alert the community was to get the local newspaper to run a news item people would see when they scanned the morning headlines. Unfortunately, our hometown paper was The Washington Post. The Post obitua…

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Will Regina Holliday Become Health Care’s Rosa Parks?

The protest organized by Regina Holliday over a patient’s right to access their medical information has intriguing similarities to the crusade Rosa Parks launched against segregated buses back in the 1950s. Both involve a refusal to accept second-class status and a resolve to push back against entrenched institutions.

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Will Regina Holliday Become Health Care’s Rosa Parks?

The protest organized by Regina Holliday over a patient’s right to access their medical information has intriguing similarities to the crusade Rosa Parks launched against segregated buses back in the 1950s. Both involve a refusal to accept second-class status and a resolve to push back against entrenched institutions.

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What the Supreme Court (and You) Won’t Hear About Health Reform

What the partisan obloquy about “Obamacare” too often obscures is that the ACA transforms utterly non-political and critical aspects of care, like patient-centeredness.

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What the Supreme Court (and You) Won’t Hear About Health Reform

What the partisan obloquy about “Obamacare” too often obscures is that the ACA transforms utterly non-political and critical aspects of care, like patient-centeredness.

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